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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. (dissatisfaction)
The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last. (christians and chris)
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect. (crafts)
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (debt)
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads. (censorship)
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. (desire)
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. (credulity)
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away. (doctors)
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. (faith)
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. (flattery)
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality. (equality)
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. (gossip)
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. (fools and foolishnes)
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life. (happiness)
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage. (life and living)
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. (forgiveness)
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. (happiness)
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. (life and living)
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms. (fights and fighting)
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. (happiness)
There is no love sincerer than the love of food. (food and eating)
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